""The CEO said: Koreans don't do sci-fi," Park recalls. "It's a Hollywood thing. The budgets are too big. It doesn't really make sense. It will never look real.""
""For the past 30-40 years, we've done amazing family dramas and romantic comedies," Park says. "We've always failed in sci-fi.""
""We [are] telling our creators: Now, you have tools to do something that's different," Park says. "Bring us the idea that you wanted to do when you were younger, but everyone told you [was] impossible because we don't have the budget, and we all look Asian.""
Hyun Park led an early dystopian sci‑fi project at Studio Dragon despite executive skepticism that Koreans do not do sci‑fi and that budgets and effects would prevent realism. Big, effects‑heavy science fiction has been rare in Korea, where studios concentrated on family dramas and romantic comedies and repeatedly failed at sci‑fi. Park's company Alquimista Media was acquired by Utopai East, the Korea branch of a Silicon Valley AI film studio. The partnership aims to supply AI tools so local creators can realize ambitious projects once considered unaffordable or impractical for Korean productions. Netflix's global licensing of Korean dramas, beginning with Squid Game, expanded international demand for Korean content.
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